Executive Director

Sam Redston is executive director of MPavilion. The many and varied projects Sam has collaborated on all have a common thread: outstanding creative vision with extraordinary technical and operational challenges—with MPavilion a perfect example. Sam is motivated to deliver outstanding creative concepts using a blend of production, business, logistics and operational skills developed over 20 years in event production and project management roles.

Program Manager

Jen Zielinska is MPavilion’s program manager. Jen has extensive experience in arts management, community engagement, curation and event production.

Originally from London, Jen was the Victoria & Albert Museum’s program manager curating the Friday Late program for two years. Previously, she worked across arts education and community engagement for organisations such as the Royal Academy of Arts, and the Louis Vuitton Arts Project. Jen’s experience in public programming extends from the Tate London’s Late at Tate, the British Museum and ‘PopRally’ at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Since moving to Melbourne, Jen has worked with the National Gallery of Victoria, the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival, the Art Gallery of New South Wales and was MPavilion’s associate producer as part of the 2016 season.

Jen holds a BA in Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins in addition to a Foundation Diploma in Fine Art: Contextual Practice.

Program producer

Vinisha Mulani is MPavilion’s program producer. She has had experience working across the arts and non-profit sectors in festival programming and production, community cultural development, and grants and fundraising.

Vinisha has worked for organisations and events including the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Centre for Social Impact UWA’s Social Impact Festival, Footscray Community Arts Centre and the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival. Before joining the MPavilion team project managed urban activation initiatives in Perth, and assisted in the development of an arts engagement strategy for culturally and linguistically diverse communities across Western Australia.

Vinisha holds a Master of Management degree from University College London in the UK with a dissertation in Design Thinking, Bachelor of Creative Arts and Bachelor of Social Work degrees from the University of Melbourne, as well as a Postgraduate Certificate in Arts & Community Engagement from the Victorian College of the Arts.

Communications and Development

Alexandra has worked with MPavilion for over a year and brings communications expertise honed in London, where she helped cultural clients in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Alexandra has also been a director at Edelman, a communications firm with a focus on brand marketing, and vice-president of communications at Louise Blouin Media, a leading international art and culture magazine, website and book publisher. At the Louise Blouin Foundation, Alexandra took on the role of development director, and she has also worked at Brunswick Arts, a prominent communications firm specialising in arts PR. Her extensive experience includes work with organisations such as the United Nations, Macquarie Bank, HSBC, ADACH, China’s Ministry of Culture, Christie’s, Venice Biennale, Art Dubai, Abu Dhabi Art, Sharjah Biennial, Design Miami/Basel, PAD Fairs, Stella Art Foundation, Kandinsky Prize, YSL, Chanel, Mont Blanc and Absolut.

Program Consultant

Sarah is a Palawa woman descending from the Plangermaireener and Trawlwoolway people of north-east Tasmania. She is a Charlie Perkins scholar with an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Cambridge where she produced a thesis on Indigenous housing in remote Australian communities. Sarah is interested in the Indigenous design space and is currently working with Jackson Clements Burrows Architects and MPavilion. Sarah also sits on EmAGN, the AIA Editorial Committee, the National Trust Landscape Reference Group, the National Trust Aboriginal Advisory Group and is a director of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria. Sarah is MPavilion’s program consultant.

Operations Manager

Isabella Woolcott is the administrative assistant at MPavilion. Isabella was educated in Italy and Switzerland before returning to Australia to complete an undergraduate degree in Art History and French. During this time she interned at Martin Browne Contemporary and is currently completing her Honours year in Art History at the University of Melbourne.

Copywriter & online editor

Adam is MPavilion’s copywriter and online editor. His writing has been published in Overland, The Saturday Paper, The Lifted Brow (including The Best Of The Lifted Brow Vol 2), The Sleepers Almanac, Kill Your Darlings and more.

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